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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big difference between input from an 11 year old and an....8th grader. [b]I don't doubt that some kids are eager to stay for HS (not mine).[/b] This architect thinks that the District should never have signed off a rehab creating a school for over 600 tweens/adolescents with little natural light, many classrooms and a cafeteria without windows, and no outdoor space. More happiness could have come from a responsible rehab. I'm also not sold on the way the BASIS franchise installs 20 something heads, one after the other. The current guy is such a bully that he's driving out some of the better veteran teachers. [/quote]

This is a genius take! Thanks for letting us know that some kids prefer to change schools for HS. That'll show all those people who have been posting on this thread that "all kids want to stay for HS". Except, wait, NO ONE SAID THAT! People have expressed that their kids wanted to stay. And a larger cohort than in the past is staying this year. No one said it is the perfect fit for all kids.

On your suggestion that the current Head is driving out long tenured teachers I would note that Covid has caused a great many educators to leave the profession. Schools across DC and the US are seeing a market uptick in teachers leaving. There are at least two other threads on DCUM right now where posters are trying to use teacher departures as data to support their dislike of current admins. Someone else made the point but I will repeat it here: without actual data on the number of Basis teachers leaving vs local and national averages those numbers in a vacuum tell us nothing.

One last question: Were you not an architect when your kid enrolled at Basis? Or had you not seen the inside of the school? Seems like given your outsized knowledge on the subject you might have noticed the architectural deficiencies before enrolling, no?[/quote]

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